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Relatives Mark '98 Cable-car Tragedy

CAVALESE, ITALY — As relatives wept quietly, a priest urged politicians and prosecutors at a memorial mass Thursday to do more to uncover the truth behind the cable-car tragedy that killed 20 people.

Rev. Aldo Pancheri said he did not want to stir controversy with his sermon marking the two-year anniversary of the accident.

"But the grief the families still suffer sends a strong message to the political and judicial authorities. . .," he said.

Several dozen family members and hundreds of well-wishers gathered in Cavalese's church for the mass. The American deputy ambassador to Italy and representatives of the U.S. and Italian military also attended

Seven Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, two Austrians and one Dutch person plunged to their deaths Feb. 3, 1998 when an errant U.S. Marine jet sliced the cables of their ski gondola.